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Single-player games like Galactic Conflict

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Galactic Conflict, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Glorpnauts — Steam game cover

    Glorpnauts

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Galactic Conflict.

    Build it. Automate it. Watch it grow! Glorpnauts is a space incremental where you mine asteroids, expand your fleet, build an automated economy and defend it from pirates. Prestige for permanent upgrades, explore new star systems and turn a tiny base into a thriving space operation.

    StrategyIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Old Stars — Steam game cover

    Old Stars

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Conflict.

    A fast-paced 4X galaxy you can actually finish. Expand by colonising and besieging rival worlds, wield government powers that bend the rules - freeze enemy fleets, sever hyperlanes, vanish into stealth - and race rivals to claim the galactic core. A grand-strategy empire in an evening, not a month.

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hollow Stars — Steam game cover

    Hollow Stars

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Conflict.

    A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op

    2026StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity® — Steam game cover

    Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Conflict.

    In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aliens: Dark Descent — Steam game cover

    Aliens: Dark Descent

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Conflict.

    Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Command Galaxies — Steam game cover

    Star Command Galaxies

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Conflict.

    Take command in the ultimate starship simulator: Star Command Galaxies. Become a Captain, recruit your crew, customize and upgrade your starship, battle alien vessels, teleport to away missions and repel boarding invaders in this real-time strategy simulation adventure from indie studio Warballoon.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Galactic Ruler — Steam game cover

    Galactic Ruler

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Galactic Conflict.

    Galactic Ruler offers real time strategy game play at both planetary level and in space! Lead your faction in diplomacy or conquest across a procedurally generated galactic map where any system might hold hostile enemies or resource riches. Develop advanced technologies to rule the galaxy!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes — Steam game cover

    Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

    Single-player alternative to Galactic Conflict — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Galactic Conflict.

    In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →